240 abstracts: psychopathology 



light of the fire-fly was deduced from a knowledge of the spectral energy 

 curve of the standard lamp. It is shown that the color of the light is 

 not a subjective phenomenon, the maximum emission of the Pyrophorus 

 noclilucus being at 0.538/z; Photuris pennsylvanica being at 0.552/x; 

 Photinus pyralis being at 0.567/*; Photinus consanguineus being at 0.578/x. 



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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. — Occupations neuroses (writer's cramp, etc.) 

 recovery after psycho-analytpic ?neasures followed by reeducation. 

 Tom A. Williams. Washington Medical Annals. January, 1911. 

 Monthly Cyclopaedia. July, 1911. 

 The true professional neurosis is psychogenically perpetuated, even 

 though it may have been at first produced by a physical disability. To 

 show this five cases are studied. They are: (1) A right torticolis and 

 cramp of the right arm while counting money. The pathogenesis was 

 traced to an unpleasant incident with a fellow employee who sat behind 

 and to the right while they were counting money in the treasury. The 

 patient's impatience interrupted the great improvement. (2) Writer's 

 cramp in a bank-teller, who refused treatment and had to change occu- 

 pation. (3) Tremulous writers cramp in a paymaster, which was traced 

 through a psychological mechanism in one interview, which lead to re- 

 covery after one month, which persists two and a half years later. (4) 

 Writer's cramp in a woman who always hated correspondence. Cured 

 in four months after unveiling psychological mechanism. (5) Complex 

 multiple cramps in a psychasthenic woman of thirty. After persevering 

 psychoanalysis and arduous education for six months, the patient re- 

 covered the power of writing with the right hand. 



In no case was a sexual factor found in the genesis. Treatment, after 

 psychoanalysis, consisted of explanation of the mechanism until the pa- 

 tients themselves could expound it: following which psychomotor dis- 

 cipline preceded the reeducation of the professional act. T. A. W. 



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700th Meeting, November 25, 1911, Cosmos Club at 8.30. Address 

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